Elizabeth

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Elizabeth boys named Elizabeth

By the numbers

Total US births

1,693,973

Estimated living today

1.1 million

Median age today

42

Peak year

1990

Best rank

9th

Rank in 2025

17th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

1,688,757 / 5,216

How old the living Elizabeths are

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,693,973 babies given the name since 1880, about 1.1 million are alive — 68 in every hundred. Roughly 158,000 of them are children and 244,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1983 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Hebrew

From Middle English Elizabeth, from the Ancient Greek Ἐλισάβετ, a transliteration of the Old Testament Biblical Hebrew אלישבע (“my God is an oath”). See El and שבועה.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Elizabeths

• Elizabeth II (1926–2022)Queen of the United Kingdom from 1952 to 2022
• Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603)Queen of England and Ireland from 1558 to 1603
• Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011)British-American actress
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)English poet
• Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (1900–2002)Queen consort of the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1952
• Elizabeth I of Russia (1709–1762)sixth Empress of Russia from 1741 to 1762 (lived 1709-1762)
• Elizabeth Blackburn (born 1948)Australian-American biological researcher
• Elizabeth Olsen (born 1989)American actress

People named Elizabeth with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Elizabeth is most common

• NY143,141
• CA136,992
• PA109,097
• TX100,866
• IL75,521
• OH71,152
• MA56,546
• MI54,694
• NJ52,175
• NC50,676

Relative to how many babies each state records, Elizabeth is most concentrated in Vermont (1.7×), Delaware (1.6×), Connecticut (1.5×), the District of Columbia (1.4×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1990

The most popular girls’ names the year Elizabeth peaked:

• Jessica
• Ashley
• Brittany
• Amanda
• Samantha
• Sarah

All the names of 1990

Elizabeth elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Elizabeth: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Elizabeth is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.04% of children were given it – 37 of them.

Elizabeth: rank by region

In 2025, Elizabeth was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

In 2025, Elizabeth was given 2 times or more in 3 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Elizabeth appears in the lists for Province of Namur (60th), Brussels-Capital Region (132nd), Province of East Flanders (188th) and Province of Flemish Brabant (193rd).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Elizabeth by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Elizabeth among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Among girls in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 1,474 who carry it, 283 go by it.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Elizabeth lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 12,841 women called Elizabeth were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 51 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 1 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Elijah
• Eli
• Elias
• Eliana
• Elise
• Eliza
• Elisabeth
• Elisa
• Elisha
• Elinor
• Elissa
• Elian

Elizabeth against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Elizabeth vs Elijah
• Elizabeth vs Eli
• Elizabeth vs Elias
• Elizabeth vs Eliana
• Elizabeth vs Elise
• Elizabeth vs Eliza

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